Traite de La Construction et des Principaux usages des Instrumens de Mathematique avec les Figures necessaires pour l'intelligence de ce Traite. Dedie a son Altesse Royale, Monseigneur Le Duc D'Orleans
by Bion, Le. St. N. [ Nicolas Nicholas ]
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"The 'Traite de la construction ... des instruments mathematiques' gives a fairly complete list of instruments normally constructed during the first quarter of the eighteenth century...some of the instruments described by Bion - such as astrolabes, marine astrolabes, the jacob staff, and the Davis quadrant - were no longer used ... All of his treatises were more for the user and the amateur than for the manufacturer." While well known in his time (partly because of the treatises he published as well as the instruments he made), few of Bion's instruments survive today. (DSB 1/2, p 132-33)
Rough English translation of the title: "Deals with construction and the Main uses of Mathematical Instruments With the necessary figures for the understanding of this Treaty. Dedicated to His Royal Highness, The Duke Bishop D'Orleans" Only the 1725 Paris edition found in the Printed Catalogues of the Library of the Royal Astronomical Society (Luther, Martino:2006)
The first edition is much scarcer than the later editions in our experience.
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- Title
- Traite de La Construction et des Principaux usages des Instrumens de Mathematique avec les Figures necessaires pour l'intelligence de ce Traite. Dedie a son Altesse Royale, Monseigneur Le Duc D'Orleans
- Author
- Bion, Le. St. N. [ Nicolas Nicholas ]
- Format/Binding
- Full calf
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Chez Jean Boudot, Jacques Collombay, et Jean Boudot fils rue S. Jacques
- Place of Publication
- A Paris
- Date Published
- 1709
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